Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...critics and some of his friends worry that this gregarious, obliging, uncomplicated man who likes to call himself the first "instant Vice President" might be too soft for the presidency. Ford of course disagrees. After reiterating his by now ritual disclaimers ("I don't want the job; I don't plan on it"), he told Angelo: "I see no reason why I shouldn't be a good President ... If I should find myself in that job some day, I feel prepared. I've worked at it. I've got friends, Republicans and Democrats, who would...
...also a master of what Russians call posh-lust, a vulgarity so elevated-or debased -that it amounts to a form of art. Hence the muscle-boy photographs he posed for, including one shot of himself wearing a black jockstrap astride a motorcycle. Hence his death, a pseudopolitical ritual suicide at the age of 45 in 1970, performed after he failed to harangue the Japanese army into an uprising to assert the country's imperial traditions...
...tailored sleeves. The man who had been a cool and respected Finance Minister suddenly found himself carried on a wave of popular enthusiasm for the first time in his career. He responded with a warmth that had been rarely seen in public. His plunges into the crowd became a ritual. With almost disbelieving delight, he told a crowd in Nantes: 'At the beginning of this campaign, everyone thought it would be a predictable election with people voting the way they always did. But something happened that threw off the experts. There appeared a new popular current within our people...
...drama in nuance and inference, in the risky currents of society which can warm or chill in their natural course. When James' people talk about being invited to a salon or about being cut off, they are employing the author's own intricate metaphor-performing a ritual of crucial selection. Bogdanovich and his screenwriter, Frederic Raphael (Darling), have swept out all the undertone from Jamesian society, trying instead to make high drama out of mere social graces. It is a little like trying to wring a sonnet out of a bill of fare...
...Evangelicals, who stem from the Evangelical Revival of the 18th century, generally lean to Calvinist theology, hold to individual conversion and biblical authority, and stress preaching more than ritual...